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JAR- FASTENEE. No. 387,304. Patented Aug. '7, 1888.

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"Unwrap STATES ATENT THOMAS B. HOW'E, OF SGRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA,ASSIGNOR F TVVO- THIRDS TO G. A. GLEARWATER AND M. A. GOODWIN, OF SAMEPLACE.

JAR FASTENER.

fiPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 387,804, dated August7, 1888.

Application filed December 30, 1887. Serial No. 259,388.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS E. Hown, of Scranton, in the county ofLackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Jar-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthisspecification, and to the figures and letters of reference markedthereon.

This invention relates to certain improvements in fasteners'forfruitjars or bottles in which a bail passes over the top of the jar andhas pivoted thereto a locking-lever for bearlng on the top of the coveror stopper, its ob ject being to improve the construction of thefastening, whereby the cost of manufacture is reduced and the efficiencyand ease of manu- 2 0 facturing the fastening increased. To these endsthe invention consists in certain details of construction andcombinations and arrangements of parts,to'be hereinafter described,andpointed out particularly in the claims at the 2 end of thisspecification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of afastener constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is atopplan view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the fastenerclosed. Figs. 4 and 5 are views of modifications.

Similar letters of reference in the several figures indicate the sameparts.

The bail A, passing over the top of the jar,

is pivoted in eyes formed in the neck-wire, as is usual in this class offasteners, its central portion, 13, being raised above the portions oneither side in order to form shoulders or abutments 0, for a purpose tobe presently ex- 40 plained.

The lockinglever is formed of spring'wire somewhat after the manner ofthat shown in my prior patent, No. 370,394, dated September 27,l887-that is to say, the wire is dou- 5 bled in the center to form thehandle D, then is carried back and formed into thelarge coils E,circling outward in opposite directions, as shown in Fig. 2, abridge-piece or core, F, having the enlarged ends G, being confinedwithin said coils only in the presentinstance. The ends of the wire donot pass off to one No model.)

side of the jar, but are formed into eyes H close to the said coils,which eyes encircle the bail in the raised central portion. The handle Dand eyes H are formed in such relative positions as that when both arein engagement with thejarcover in locked position the said eyes will beslightly forward of the center of the coils, in which position the pullby thebail will tend to hold the handle down and the fastening locked.

The coils IE, it will be noted, are of a diame ter equal to or slightlygreater than the distance between the bail and jar-cover, and the bail,being pivoted closely to the coils, will, when under pressure, rest onthem and cause them to bear their proportion of the weight.

\Vh en the locking lever is thrown into locked position, the tendency ofthe spring will be to flatten or spread, and the core or bridge-piece Fis employed to counteract this tendency, the enlarged ends of the saidpiece eifectually preventing the spreading or separating of thecoils,and,by taking up the downward pressure, either by resting on thejartop on the sides or else entirely filling said coils, counteractingthe tendency to flatten. The eyes on the ends of the locking-lever areprevented from spreading by the shoulders or abutments G on the bail.

It is obvious that the construction herein before described may besomewhat modified without departing from the spirit of my invention. Forinstance, the core or bridge-piece may be entirely omitted and theshoulders on the bail depended on to prevent the spreading of the coilsof the locking-lever,and said shoulders or abutments may be in the formof eyes engaging those on the locking-lever, or enlargements on the bailmay be employed, as shown in Figs. 4c and 5, although I prefer theconstruction first described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- 1 1. In ajar-fastener,and in combination with the jar and its cover, abailpassing over said cover and a spring-wire locking-lever formed into eyessurrounding the bail and into large coils resting on the j ar-cover atthe bottom,said bail taking a bearing on the top of said coils,substantially as described.

2. In a j ar-fastener, and in combination with thejar and its cover, abail passing over said cover, and a spring-wire locking-lever doubled atthe center to form the handle, then formed into the outwardly-circlingcoils rest- 5 ing on said cover and affording a bearing for the hail,the ends of said wire being formed into eyes surrounding the bail,substantially l as described. 3. The combination, with ajar, a bail passto lug over its cover, and a wire locking-lever pivotally connected tothe bail and formed with large coils resting on the cover, ofacore-pieoe passing through said coils, having enlarged ends forpreventing the longitudinal expansion of said coils, and a handle foroperating the i5 lever, substantially as described.

THOMAS B. HOWE. \Vitnesses:

JAs. H. ToRREY, J NO. P. HEBRA.

